Shine OnMan buys wife 55,000 dresses over 56 years
Over the past five decades, Margot Brockmann's husband Paul has bought her a whopping 55,000 dresses.
And despite the California couple's lives being overrun with cocktail dresses, Margot is perfectly okay with them. The reason? She hates shopping, and would rather clean the house.
"Margot is the love of my life and has remained so to this very day," Paul, who was raised in Germany, writes on his website. "I followed her to the United States and was disowned by my own family for doing so back in the '50s."
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He acquired his first ten dresses for free as a young man in Bremen, Germany where he worked at a seaport. His obsession for these rare finds grew into a full blown frenzy as the couple moved from Germany to Ohio to Arizona to California, reports LA Weekly.
The couple, who are now in their 70s and have two grown children, started ballroom dancing when they met in the 1950s. At that time, Paul became enamoured with seeing her dance in dresses. In fact, they met at a dance where Paul claims his life was forever changed.
"I would envisage Margot dancing in the dress, the look of it, the sound of it, and buy dress after dress for her to wear when we danced," he says.
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His website was set up with the purpose to sell some of the dresses as storage has become too expensive, and an unexpected illness meant extra money was needed. The couple even have a Facebook fan page with more than 2,800 likes.
Over the years, Paul has bought every type of dress imaginable, from pink taffeta gowns and bright yellow sundresses to Oscar de La Renta and Vera Wang beauties. He would never spend over US $300 on a dress, and would buy the dress regardless of size, altering it if it didn't fit his wife.
"The dress collection grew as I searched far and wide at estate sales, department stores, yard sales and antique shows," he writes. "Always looking to buy more dresses for Margot, everywhere and anywhere I went."
